CNG 87, Lot: 690. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.66 g, 1h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 302/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, ΠH monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 108; Zervos Issue 35, obv. die 537; Jenkins, Early, Group e; SNG Copenhagen -; Weber 8218 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, overstruck on uncertain type.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 151 (9 October 2006), lot 256.